Kaluga Kitsch

When we lived in Moscow, we were lucky enough to have a friend who had a house on the outskirts of Kaluga which she used as a dacha. One of my favorite parts of visiting the city was going to the central market. Here are a few photos - focusing on some of the cool signage - from July 2005:

The boat in the picture is named "Chernomorets"

The painting at left could easily be sold at any number of
Moscow galleries as nostalgia-inducing, Soviet-kitschy art.

More photos from that day - including lots of the painted products on mirrors like the cabbage in the image above - in this Flickr set.